Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Martha Granger Blair gave up a job in a dress shop to go with the American. She has a year's contract at a salary "much bigger" than before, will write "authentic, interesting, amusing" stories. Whatever Mrs. Blair will say, she will put down either in longhand or by dictation : she does not know how to typewrite, though for purposes of publicity the American pictured her "writing her first newspaper story" at a typewriter. Fond of tennis, swimming, riding, mother of two, she dislikes golf and bridge, prefers talking to backgammon. Last winter, long before she knew...
...ready with the statement he promised his public in connection with his refusal to take a salary cut at the Metropolitan and the severance of his connection there (TIME, May 9). Excerpt: "Mr. Gatti-Casazza had a grudge against me. . . . None of my colleagues had a long contract to protect as I had. . . . They [the 32 artists who signed a letter protesting against Tenor Gigli's esprit de corps'] have acted in a tricky...
...Sidney Rogers and James Fulton Hoge prepared to defend their big client, Coca-Cola Co., in two damage suits. More important of the two was an action of $5,000,000 brought by Loft, Inc., candymaker and seller. Loft charged that Coca-Cola attempted to interfere with a Loft contract to sell Pepsi-Cola in its stores, threatened to attack the value of Loft stock ($2.50 last week) if the company would not sell Coca-Cola, sent agents to Loft soda fountains to hurt Loft's business by slander and intimidations. Filing a $2,000,000 suit...
...knew. If she can learn quickly enough, she will be Ronald Colman's leading lady in Samuel Goldwyn's production of The Brothers Karamazov. Producer Goldwyn saw her in the Tobis production Karamazov, later in Tempest, with Emil Jannings. He cabled his agent to give her a contract if she could learn English quickly. Actress Sten thought it would take about two weeks...
...career. When her father, a Russian ballet master, died, Anna, then 12, helped to support the family in Kiev. At 15 she got into the Soviet Film Academy. Three years later, Sovkino sent her to Berlin to make pictures in Russian. Her work in Karamazov got her a UFA contract. She made two pictures in German, then a French version of Karamazov after studying French for three weeks. To convince Producer Goldwyn she took a Berlin screen test-a bit from Gloria Swanson's role in Indiscretion, which she recited in English. Anna Sten, 22, came...